Flight Sergeant Gordon John Lunney Barnes (1925-1945)

Flight Sergeant Gordon John Lunney Barnes Veteran

Birth

12 Jan 1925

Saint John, Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada

Death

15 Feb 1945 (aged 20)

Skåne län, Sweden

Burial

Helsingborg Pålsjö Cemetery

Helsingborg, Helsingborgs kommun, Skåne län, Sweden Add to Map

Plot

Sec. XV. 86.

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Military Service
Service Number: K/267555
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 429 Sqdn. Bison Squadron (Fortunae Nihil)

Flight Sergeant / Air Gunner.

Gordon was killed when his Halifax aircraft # MZ 865 went down in the sea off Sweden during a night mine-laying operation in the western Baltic south of Copenhagen.

Son of Herman and Beatrice Barnes, of Saint John, New Brunswick.

He is also remembered on the RCAF Memorial at Old Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery in Middleton, Nova Scotia.

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HE IS WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL. IN PERFECT PEACE HE AWAITS US ALL

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